A glacier in the Hanes Art Gallery?

September 15, 2014

Artist Spencer Finch has unveiled his latest project, “Sky,” at the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center, which is on display until Oct. 27.

Incorporating his usual off-the-cuff style, Finch’s “Sky” is a system for producing a miniature glacier. Eighty gallons of carefully dyed blue water freezes, melts and evaporates as it moves through the machinery of “Sky.” The system releases ice about every 15 minutes and simulates the sound of a glacier calving into water with a loud crack.

“It is poignant, ironic, poetic and funny all at once,” said Paul Bright, director of the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery.

Learn more about this exhibition on the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery website.